Coke-oven door



MMASS Jan. 2, 1923.

H. GOURLEY. CnKE OVEN DOOR. FILED JUNE 7. 1921 lllll I r dif- Alg@ Patented dan. .32,

HARRY GOURLEY, F SEEFFELD, ENGLAND.

COKE-OVEN DOSE.

Application filed June 7, 1921. Serial No. 475,659.

To all whom t may con-cern.' material is arranged in position around the Be it known that l, HARRY GoUnLnY, a iront portion of the door frame and this is subject of the King of Great Britain and also embedded within the cast iron frame ireland, residing at 30 Kenwood l'arlr Road, D during the process or' casting the frame. city oi Sheilield, county of York, England, rlhe conliguration the bar lends ithave invented certain new and usetul l. m sell to this, but l do not bind myselt' to make provements in Coke-Oven Doors and lilve this bar into an endless loop the ends Doors (for which have tiled an application may be brought into juxtaposition but not in Great Britain, No. 6,020, under date of connected which will allow for contraction. 55 i0 March l0, 1914), of which the following is lil is the usual inspection hole.

a specification, reference being had to the l may also, when necessary, arrange sevaccompanying drawing. eral flat iron or mild steel bars ll horizon- T his invention relates toimprovements ntally as an additional reinforcement. reinforcing or strengthening tne doors oi Claims: f G0 furnaces, coke ovens7 and the like which are l. A. reiniorced door for eolie ovens, coinsubjected to great heat; the object being to prising a hollow cast metal body having a prevent the warping or cracking ofthe cast curved wall, and a plurality of \.'Jrought iron frame of which the chief parts of such metal bars embedded in said wall and eX- doors usually consist. tending longitudinally oi and in parallelism 65 lThe iii-ame is generally hollowed or dished, with the wall.

the concavity being filled up with slabs ot 2. reiniorced door for coke ovens, comi'irebricl, ganister or similar refractory maprising a hollen.7 cast metal body having a Grial curved wall merging into a llat noition l am aware that a reinforcement ol such the sides and ends thereof, a pliirantv or' 70 doors has been previously made by the inserwrought metal bars embedded in said curved tion of wire gauze and the likel but such ma wall and extending longitudinally thereof, terial is liable to be melted or be otherwise and a. wrought m tal loop embedded in the e damaged and rendered oi vno use, by the flat portiongior the entire length or sides effect of the molten casteiron during the and ends oithe door. 75 process of casting same in position. l reinforced door tor colte ovens, coinrlhe accompanying drawings illustrate my prising a hollow cast. body having a improved method of reinforcing such doors. curvedwall merg' into a por on at Fig. l is a. iront elevation, iv'th a portion the sides and ends iereot, a plurality oit of the central part removed. wrought metal bars embedded in said curved 30 Fig. 2, cross section through same. s Wall extendinn' longitudinally gf the. Fig. 3, vertical section ot Fig. l through dooiy, a plurality lor curi/ed wrought metal the centre. bars extending transversely ott said tirst. bars. ln the application of my invention to the and a wrought metal loop embeddedv in the reinforcement oil a colte oven door suoli as flat portion throughout the entirelengih oli 85 40 shown in the drawings l employ strong bars the sides and ends oit the door.

or" wrought iron or mild steel A arranged ln witness whereof l have hereunto longitudinally shown and embedded durmy hand in presence oi'i a witness. ino` the casting recess in the bac.; or convex Y side of the dobrpl), the number ot such bars HARRY GURLE lf' being discretionary. llitness:

An endless or loop shaped bar C of like Enson D. DRURY. 

